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Daily Book News Wednesday, 7th January 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Religion publishers snap up suspense, midlife and parenting books HarperCollins Christian Publishing acquired a romantic‑suspense trilogy, WaterBrook signed a...

Daily Book News Tuesday, 6th January 2026 Publishing Industry News Book Deals: Week of January 5, 2026 The latest deal round‑up sees Ibram X. Kendi’s nonfiction manifesto Chain of Ideas picked up by One World, Emma Donoghue’s dystopian Blaze...

Daily Book News Monday, 5th January 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Book Deals: Week of January 5, 2026 One World bought Ibram X. Kendi’s “Chain of Ideas” on the spread of Great Replacement theory, Summit pre‑empted Emma...

How much nuance does the typical romance have? Or the typical Amish mystery? BTW ... during my recent trip to London, I visited several bookstores and didn't see anything that resembled American-style romances. For that matter, I didn't see much...

@AgentPete In technical writing, it's become pretty much flawless. That's due to the nature of technical writing: staid, voiceless, template stuff, which is perfect for machine translation. Firms still have humans checking because of the...

Daily Book News Sunday, 4th January 2026 DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News Post-B&T, Vendors Jostle for the Library Market After wholesaler Baker & Taylor’s closure left libraries scrambling, vendors like Amazon Business, Barnes & Noble...

Yes, I agree. It feels very much as if this is testing the water… Let’s see if authors / translators / readers complain about it, and if not, then we’ve saved ourselves a bunch of dosh. Nor will it stop there, of course. @Aethalope I have yet...

The shift to AI as a translator, though. Yes it's 'only' romance and 'only' English to French, but if it turns out to viable, it won't stop there. Will AI be able to capture the nuance of the original? No, but then human translators didn't...

It’s fun, it’s mildly eccentric, and it’s all yours… unless you attended last year’s final Huddle, in which case, you may recognize some of the questions :) Boast about your score achievements here. I’m sure you’ll be honest :)

Is it just me, or is this a bit more upbeat than what I've been hearing elsewhere?

DAILY SUMMARY: Publishing Industry News HarperCollins replaces its romance translators with AI Harlequin, the romance imprint of HarperCollins, laid off its in‑house French translators and is now using Fluent Planet’s AI tools to translate its...

Daily Book News Monday, 28th December 2025 Copymight Coalition Forms to Tackle AI Copyright Challenges A group dubbed the Copymight Coalition launched to pursue litigation and collective licensing deals against generative‑AI firms that scrape...

Today’s Book News Saturday, 27th December 2025 PublisHer and Sharjah Publishing City unite to advance women publishers PublisHer signed a memorandum of understanding with Sharjah Publishing City Free Zone to support women‑owned publishing...

Today’s Book News Friday, 26th December 2025 News Summary: The News in 2025, Part 2 — Romantasy, Audiobooks, and the Rise of Bookshop.org Romantasy dominated 2025’s reading charts across print, e‑book and audiobook formats, with authors like...

What an utter load of horseshit. And it reads like it was written by AI… all fluff, no actual reasonable content. "Our tool shifts the balance of power back to the writers," said cofounder Steve El-Sharawy. "For me, the most exciting part of...